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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
Available on: Audio Download ($15.27) | Audio CD ($18.40) | Audio Cassette
An unforgettable memoir of growing up black in the 1930s and 1940s in a tiny Arkansas town where Angelou's grandmother's store was the heart of the community and white people seemed as strange as aliens from another planet.
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Martin Luther King Jr.: We Shall Overcome
by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Available on: Audio Download ($9.95) | Audio CD ($15.95)
Encompasses the most moving moments in American social history with the extraordinary civil rights leader.
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Fundamental Cases: The Twentieth-Century Courtroom Battles That Changed Our Nation
by Alan M. Dershowitz
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
The courtroom trial has fascinated human beings from the beginning of recorded history. Trials are theater, trials are history, and the great trials of the twentieth century and beyond provide a unique window into American history and the sense of America's enduring commitment to law.
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Introducing Postmodernism
by Richard Appignanesi
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD
What on earth is postmodernism? Here, at last, is the perfect audio guide to the maddeningly enigmatic concept that has been used to describe our cultural condition of the late-20th and early-21st centuries.
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Unlocking the Secrets of 2012
by John Major Jenkins
Available on: Audio Download ($13.10) | Audio CD ($22.46)
Did the ancient Mayans predict that the "end of time" would occur in 2012 . . . or is that a modern misunderstanding of their intended message?
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Warming the Stone Child
by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Available on: Audio Download ($10.48) | Audio CD ($15.96)
The pain of abandonment—both real and metaphorical—can cast a shadow over our entire adult experience.
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Undaunted Courage
by Stephen Ambrose
Available on: Audio Download ($15.95) | Audio CD ($24.00) | Audio Cassette
Captain Meriwether Lewis was hand-picked by President Thomas Jefferson to explore and acquire the American West...
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Archaeology and the Iliad: The Trojan War in Homer and History
by Eric H. Cline
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
The Trojan War, captured forever in Homer's epic poem the Iliad, resonates to the present day in the popular imagination, and this magnificent confrontation continues to exert a tremendous influence on modern audiences.
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A History of Ancient Greece
by Eric H. Cline
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
In this intriguing series of lectures, prolific researcher, author, and George Washington University professor Eric H. Cline delves into the history of ancient Greece, frequently considered to be the founding nation of democracy in Western civilization.
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Moliere
by Sherwin T. Wine
Available on: Audio Download ($4.95)
France under Louis XIV reached the peak of its power. Its culture bridged the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. Moliére was the son of a successful upholsterer who became...
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